MEDIEVAL LITURGIES
THEO/MI 673
Michael S. Driscoll
     Session Topics

1) Introduction

2) Libelli and Early Sacramentaries

3) Non-Roman Western Rites

4) The Ordines Romani

5) Visit of Ambrosian Collection and Rare Books Room at the Hesburgh Library of Notre Dame

6) Early Lectionaries and Collectars

7) Pontificals and Rituals (I)

8) Antiphonars and Tropers.

9) The Mass before 1200: the Roman Canon, the ordo missae, sacerdotal apologies, expositionaes missae

10) The "Full Missal" and Breviary

11) Pontificals and Rituals (II)

12) English Liturgy and Medieval Eucharistic Devotions

13) Cult of the Saints and the Blessed Virgin in the Middle Ages

14 and 15) Semester Projects

Session 1- Introduction and Historical Background

General Reading:
*É. Palazzo, xvii-61.


Session 2 - Libelli and Early Sacramentaries

Report 1: Roman Liturgy: Architectural Setting
Report 2: The Veronensis
Report 3: The "Old" Gelasian (Vat. Reg. lat. 316)
Report 4: Eighth-Century Gelasian Sacramentary
Report 5: The Gregorian Sacramentary

General Reading:
*C. Vogel, 1-59.
*T. Klauser, 1-44.
J. Jungmann, MRR I, 1-260.
J. Deschusses, "The Sacramentaries: A Progress Report," Liturgy 18:1 (Cistercians of the Strict Observance, KY, 1984) 13-60 (BX 1970 A1 L57).



Session 3 - Non-Roman Western Rites

Report 1: The Gallican Rite
Report 2: The Celtic Rite
Report 3: The Mozarabic Rite
Report 4: The Ambrosian/Milanese Rite

General Reading:
*C. Vogel, 107-134; 273-289.
J. Leonard, "Traditions, Liturgical, in the West: Pre-Reformation," New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship, 1282-1293.
J. Jungmann, "The Defeat of Teutonic Arianism," Pastoral Liturgy 1-47.


Session 4 - The Ordines Romani

Report 1: The Editions
Report 2: Ordo Romanus Primus
Report 3: Funerals in OORR
Report 4: Dedication of  a Church in the OORR

General Reading:
*É. Palazzo, 173-194.
*C. Vogel, 135-224
*T. Klauser, 59-72.


Session 7 - Pontificals and Rituals (I)

Report 1: The PRG
Report 2: The Roman Pontifical of the 12th century
Report 3: Origins: Early Medieval Pontificals

General Reading:
*É. Palazzo, 187-212.
*C. Vogel, 225-251.

N. K. Rasmussen, "Unité et diversité des Pontificaux latins aux VIIIe, IXe, et Xe siècles," in Liturgie et l'Église particulière et liturgie de l'Église universelle (Conférence Saint-Serge 1975) 393-410.


 Session 8 - Antiphonars and Tropers

Report 1: Antiphonaries
Report 2: Tropes
Report 3: Hymns
Report 4: Liturgical Drama: The Quem Quaeritis

General Reading:
*É. Palazzo, 63-82.
*C. Vogel, 357-367.

T. Elich, "Using Liturgical Texts in the Middle Ages," in G. Austen, ed., Fountain of Life , 69-73.

E. Foley, "The Cantor in Historical Perspective," in Worship 56(1982) 194-213.

"Antiphonal" (vol. 1, 329-330); "Troper" (vol. 12, 208); "Tropes to Ordinary/Proper of the Mass" (vol 12, 208-213) in Dictionary of the Middle Ages  (MI: D 114 .D5 1982).


Session 9 - The Mass before 1200: the Roman Canon, the ordo missae,sacerdotal apologies, expositionaes missae.

Report 1: The Mass before 1200
Report 2: The Ordo Missae
Report 3: Sacerdotal Apologies
Report 4: Expositiones Missae

General Reading:
*Klauser, 1-116.


Session 10 - The "Full Missal" and Breviary

Report  1: The 'Full Missal'
Report 2: The Breviary
Report 3: The Monastic Office: The Office of the Dead

General Reading:
*É. Palazzo, 113-144.
P.-M. Gy, "L'Unification liturgique de l'occident et la liturgie de la Curie romaine," Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques 59(1975) 601-612. [Særtyryk 657].
*Klauser, 101-152.


Session 11 - Pontificals and Rituals (II)

Report 1: The Pontifical of the Roman Curia of the XIII Century
Report 2: The Pontifical of William Durandus
Report 3: William Durand, Bishop of Mende, liturgist
Report 4: Medieval Marriage Liturgy

General Reading:
*É. Palazzo, 213-235.
*Vogel, 252-265.

R. E. Reynolds, "Pontifical," DMA 10(1988) 30-31.

P.-M. Gy, "Ritual," DMA 10(1988) 407-409.

R. Zawilla, "Durand, Guillaume," DMA 4(1984) 314-315.


 Session 12 - Medieval English Liturgy and Eucharistic Devotions

Report 1: The Sarum Rite
Report 2: The York Rite
Report 3: English Coronation Rite
Report 4: Eucharistic Devotions

General Reading:
C. Brooke, "Prescription and Reality in the Rubrics of the Sarum Rite Service Books," in Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson  (London, 1992) MI: CB 351 .I57 1992.


Session 13 - Cult of the Saints and the BVM in the Middle Ages

Report 1: Liturgical References to the BVM
Report 2: Development of the Office of the BVM
Report 3: Liturgical and Devotional Sources for Cult on a Popular Saint

General Reading:
M. Driscoll, "Cult of the Saints," in The New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship, Peter Fink, S.J., ed., (Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1990) 1137-1143.

M. Warner, Marina, Alone of all her sex : the myth and the cult of the Virgin Mary (New York : Vintage Books, 1983). BT602 .W37 1976.


Sessions 14 and 15 - Semester Projects


 

 ABBREVIATIONS
AB  Analecta Bollondiana
ACC  Alcuin Club Collection
ACT  Alcuin Club Tracts
ALW  Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft
CC  Corpus Christianorum
DACL  Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie
DMA  Dictionary of the Middle Ages
EL  Ephemerides liturgicae
HBS  Henry Bradshaw Society
HS  Hispania sacra
HTR  Harvard Theological Review
JEH  Journal of Ecclesiastical History
JLW  Jahrbuch für Liturgiewissenschaft
JTS  Journal of Theological Studies
LQF  Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen
LMD  La Maison Dieu
LQF  Liturgiewissenschaftliche Quellen und Forschungen
MEL  Monumenta Ecclesiae liturgica
MHS  Monumenta Hispaniae sacra, serie litúrgica
MRR  Mass of the Roman Rite
NCE  New Catholic Encyclopedia
NDSW  New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship
OUP  Oxford University Press
PL  Patrologia Latina, ed. J.-P. Migne
RAC  Revista di archeologia cristiana
RB  Revue Bénédictine
RED  Rerum ecclesiasticarum documenta
RHE  Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique
RSPT  Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques
SE  Sacris erudiri
SF  Spicilegium Friburgense
SLS  Studia Latina Stockholmiensis
SM  Studi Medievali
SP  Studia Patristica
SSL  Spicilegium Sacrum Lovaniense
ST  Studi e testi
TA  Text und Arbeiten
ZKT  Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie

En.tr.  English translation
MI  Medieval Institute (Hesburg Library 7th floor)
r  review

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